The Odyssey is the story of a man driven both by the desire to return home and by an insatiable curiosity which pushes him to take detours, to meet others and discover the world. Ulysses holds both ends of his desire, at the cost of ten years of wandering. It is himself that he discovers at the end of the path. If this ancient story still speaks to us, it is because it deals with particularly topical universal questions: identity, otherness, hospitality.

Michaël Duperrin goes to the supposed places of Ulysses' wanderings. The photographer travels through multiple layers, between here and elsewhere, now and yesterday, reality and fiction, in search of echoes between the mythical past and present reality. The experience will last ten years, the time it takes Ulysses to find Ithaca.

retraces the first part of this Odyssey, and immerses us in the world of gods, monsters, the Underworld and mermaids. The photographs are printed using cyanotype, one of the first photographic printing processes, which owes its name to its color. While we see the Mediterranean and its intense blue sky, the word “blue” does not exist in Homer’s language. The adjective which will later designate a dark blue refers in the Odyssey to the world of Night and the Underworld, that is to say to the Other world.

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signed + an original signed 15X21cm cyanotype (to choose from 4 cyanotypes visible on the image carousel)

transparent matte prolypropylene jacket 0.30mm / white screen printing